Nos événements

On 27 October 1957, crowds flocked to the church of Our lady of the Assumption. The church welcomed the Archbishop of Cambrai, Monsignor Émile Guerry. He was about to consecrate the main altar that inaugurated the reconstruction of the building. The church has now been open to worship for four years.

The church as we know it today is the successor to four well-known buildings that were destroyed, either through dilapidation or by the two world wars. The last bombings in May 1940 destroyed a large part of the building. A single aisle still stands and welcomes the faithful until the autumn. Services were then held in the village hall of the boys' school and, from 1942, in a barracks commissioned by the town hall.

Meanwhile, reconstruction work continued. The architectural style of the church differed from that chosen for the furnishings and fittings. While the exterior façade and barrel vaults of the nave show references to 18th-century classical architecture, the liturgical furnishings are in keeping with the contemporary movement to revive sacred art. At the beginning of 1957, the dean of Orchies asked Father Goossens from Saint Paul of Wisques Abbey to come and work on the choir furniture.

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